Robot surgery a 'game changer' for operations

A MAN who has become a hospital surgeon’s 200th patient he has operated on using a special robot has praised the state-of-the-art technology.

- By GAZETTE REPORTER

Marn Singh from Fairfield had a tumour in his bowel removed in a procedure carried out at the University Hospital of North Tees by surgeon Talvinder Gill.

He is the 200th patient Mr Gill has performed colorectal surgery on using the robot - with the robot being used more than 700 times in total by surgeons in the hospital's operating theatre.

Marn, 68, was diagnosed with bowel cancer after discovering blood while going to the toilet, which led to a referral for a colonoscopy investigation and a scan.

Speaking the day after surgery, he said: “The whole procedure was so professional, it was mind blowing.

“The whole team was so reassuring, they fill you with confidence that whatever they were going to do was going to be the right thing for me.

“They put me in a fantastic mind-frame. I've got up this morning and I feel okay”